Repression

Report Finds Stops, Searches Of Protesters ‘Unlawful’: Watchdog

February 27, 2020 Staff, Redpowermedia.wordpress.com Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Repression

VANCOUVER — A civilian police watchdog has released what Indigenous advocates in support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs are calling an “explosive” letter condemning RCMP actions against Indigenous protesters. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association filed a complaint with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP alleging Mounties unlawfully restricted access to a remote logging road...

Bid To Free Manning Launched As Explosive New Evidence Threatens To End Assange Extradition

February 24, 2020 Tom Coburg, Thecanary.co Resist! Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

Lawyers acting on behalf of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning have lodged a motion, arguing for her release. This comes as WikiLeaks tweeted that Julian Assange‘s lawyers intend to produce ‘bombshell’ evidence at next week’s extradition hearing. Meanwhile, more evidence has emerged to further the argument that the extradition hearings should end on the grounds of extreme prejudice by UK authorities.

Assange’s Persecution Has Exposed Media Depravity The World Over

February 24, 2020 Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlinjohnstone.com Educate! Julian Assange, Media, Repression, Wikileaks

Julian Assange started a leak outlet on the premise that corrupt and unaccountable power is a problem in our world, and that problem can be fought with the light of truth. Corrupt and unaccountable power responded by detaining, silencing and smearing him. His persecution has proved his own thesis about the world absolutely correct.

Doctors For Assange Ratchet Up Pressure

February 22, 2020 Staff, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression

Ahead of Julian Assange’s upcoming extradition hearing on February 24, a letter by a group of doctors representing 117 physicians and psychologists from 18 nations calls for an end to the psychological torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange. Published in the pre-eminent medical journal The Lancet, the letter expresses concern over Julian Assange’s fitness for his legal proceedings while suffering the effects of ongoing psychological torture.

John Pilger: It Is Time For Julian Assange To Be Saved, Not Betrayed

February 20, 2020 John Pilger, Thegrayzone.com Resist! Australia, Courts, Julian Assange, Repression

This February 22, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death.

Britain’s Got A Supreme Court Scandal: NEW Damning Emails Show UK Corruption In The Case Against Julian Assange

February 11, 2020 Jude Fleming, Medium.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Supreme Court, United Kingdom (UK)

Assange came awfully close to death in December. He is not out of the woods. He is currently locked up under maximum security in a British prison and ill, injured and enduring torture. He was taken from his legal refuge in Ecuador’s embassy on April 11, 2019 and whisked into solitary confinement for 10 months. He has days before a crucial US Extradition case on Feb. 24th, 2020 but he is virtually in a legal, technological and communication straightjacket along with his legal team. Assange has been forced to remain in UK for 10 years under the ruse that the UK was obliged to enforce a disproportionate, now obsolete, European Arrest Warrant (EAW) from Sweden. The outcome has been a catastrophic deprivation of Assange’s fundamental human rights.

West Virginia Legislation Would Make Civil Disobedience Against Gas Pipelines A Felony

February 11, 2020 Staff , Morgancountyusa.org Educate! Civil Disobedience, Pipelines, Reform, Repression, West Virginia

Industry drafted legislation (HB 4615) that would make civil disobedience against a pipeline or other fossil fuel projects a felony is moving through the West Virginia legislature. The House of Delegates Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the legislation February 10, 2020 at 8:30 am.

RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes The Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange

February 10, 2020 By Ray McGovern, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

Truth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars. One of the main German TV channels (ZDF) ran two prime-time segments on Wednesday night exposing authorities in Sweden for having “made up” the story about Julian Assange being a rapist. Until last night most Germans, as well as other consumers of “major media” in Europe...

Embassy Protectors Will Not Be Able To Tell Jury Guaido Is Not President, Or Mention International Law

February 8, 2020 Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad, Defendembassyprotectors.org Educate! Activists, Courts, Regime Change, Repression, Venezuela

On February 4, Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell issued a ruling on what the jurors will be allowed to be told in the trial of the Embassy Protectors scheduled to begin on February 11. She granted most of the government’s requests to prevent the jury from hearing important facts about the case, leaving the protectors with little in the way of a defense. The courtroom will not be an oasis of truth in Washington, DC. The fact that Nicolas Maduro is the lawful president of Venezuela, not the coup leader Juan Guaido, cannot be uttered in that courtroom.

Brazilian Judge Delays “For Now” Decision On Indictment Of U.S. Journalist Greenwald

February 7, 2020 Anthony Boadle , Reuters.com Resist! Brazil, Courts, Journalism, Repression

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge indicted six people accused of hacking the phones of prosecutors in the country’s biggest corruption case on Thursday, but held off “for now” on accepting cybercrimes charges against U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald. The judge, Ricardo Soares Leite, said the Supreme Court had to rule first on an earlier injunction shielding Greenwald from investigation before he could decide on the indictment, which charges Greenwald.

Chile: 5 Dead In A Week As Violent Repression Continues

February 4, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Chile, Class Struggle, Repression

Chile has faced one of its most violent weeks after five people have died due to the increase of violence and repression in the hands of the militarized police (Carabineros). The deaths took place in different locations of Santiago. So far, 31 deaths have been registered since Oct. 18 when demonstrations began against the measures promoted by the current neoliberal government.

The Assange Precedent: The Spark That Lit The Fire In The War On Journalism

January 31, 2020 By Nozomi Hayase, Commondreams.org Resist! Journalism, Julian Assange, Repression

At the hearing on Thursday, at Westminster in London, the timetable for Julian Assange’s US extradition case was worked out. Assange’s US legal teams made an application to have the extradition hearing split. His defense lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, emphasized to the court that they won’t be ready to call the main body of their evidence until after the first week of the hearing, which is now set to start at the end of February.

Snowden Warns Targeting Of Greenwald And Assange Shows Governments ‘Ready To Stop The Presses—If They Can’

January 29, 2020 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Journalism, Julian Assange, Repression

In an op-ed published Sunday night by the Washington Post, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden connected Brazilian federal prosecutors' recent decision to file charges against American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald to the U.S. government's efforts to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "The most essential journalism of every era is precisely that which a government attempts to silence. These prosecutions demonstrate that they are ready to stop the presses—if they can."

Over 40 Press Freedom And Civil Liberties Groups Denounce Brazil’s Charges Against Glenn Greenwald

January 28, 2020 Parker Higgins, Freedom.press Resist! Brazil, Journalism, Repression

In an open letter today, more than 40 press freedom and civil liberties groups strongly condemned the “cybercrime” charges against Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and demanded that Brazilian authorities renounce them immediately. The letter was organized by Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders, and it includes prominent members of the human rights, civil liberties, and press freedom organizations from Brazil and around the world.

The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate

January 24, 2020 Staff, Caitlinjohnstone.com Educate! Journalism, Repression, Whistleblowers

It is not surprising that Brazil is advancing the same war on journalism we’ve been seeing in the US, UK, Australia and France. With the election of the overtly fascist Jair Bolsonaro in October 2018 (an election whose corrupt foundations were exposed by Greenwald’s reporting with The Intercept Brasil), the Brazilian government moved into full alignment with the the US-centralized empire, which was why his inauguration was enthusiastically celebrated by characters like Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Benjamin Netanyahu.

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